1.2 Report Authority Professional Release Notes
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Report Authority Professional
24.1.2 (17 April 2024)
| No | Category | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bug Fix | Fixed a "PrimaryItemDimensionallyInvalidError" message when validating an ESEF & CIPC file. |
| 2 | Bug Fix | Fixed a bug on the newly introduced tagging of report variables of type Yes/No. Values were incorrectly inserted into the XBRL capitalised. |
| 3 | Bug Fix | Fixed a bug which resulted in extended elements appearing to lose their labels when switching languages. |
| 4 | Bug Fix | Fixed a bug which resulted in the html export being truncated. |
| 5 | Bug Fix | Fixed a bug when renaming the label of an extended tag in a label other than English. |
24.1.1 (5 April 2024)
| No | Category | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Taxonomies | Narodowy Bank Polski taxonomies:
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| 2 | Bug Fix | Resolved a bug which resulted in the application being forced to close when inserting a financial table after adding a new period. |
| 3 | Bug Fix | Resolved a bug which prevented the document from being displayed in Print Preview due to duplicate indices for table row/column suppression. |
| 4 | Bug Fix | Resolved a bug when reporting ESEF that did not allow the currently tagging role to be changed after editing the Extension Taxonomy URL. |
24.1.0 (11 March 2024)
| No | Category | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Functionality | Report Authority can connect to and import data from Oracle NetSuite. |
| 2 | New Functionality | The account mapping functionality released in 23.1.0 has been adapted to use data from NetSuite. |
| 3 | New Functionality | Secondary tags (dimension members) can now be applied to existing tags by dragging and dropping them from the presentation hierarchy in the primary tags panel. |
| 4 | New Functionality | For ESEF documents, the dimensionality of a role can now be set by dragging and dropping dimension members from the Core Taxonomy section of the Primary Tags panel. |
| 5 | New Functionality | A new "Export with maximum-quality images" export option is given when exporting to iXBRL/ESEF format. This may increase the file size but contain maximum quality EMF images. |
| 6 | New Functionality | Allow the XBRL tagging of custom report variables. This is a convenient alternative for including mandatory tags that are usually contained in the hidden section of the iXBRL document. |
| 7 | New Functionality | Automatically create and XBRL tag custom report variables for documents using the CIPC taxonomy. |
| 8 | New Functionality | Data objects can now be placed in headers and footers. This is useful to automate content such as entity name and reporting date. Previously, cross-references had to be used in headers. |
| 9 | New Taxonomy | FRC 2024 Taxonomy |
| 10 | New Taxonomy | UK Charities Taxonomy 2023 |
| 11 | Updated Taxonomy | Updated the ESEF 2022 taxonomy to version 1.1 |
| 12 | Bug Fix | When the activation key is bound to the user name instead of the computer ID, Report Authority previously suggested the username was the computer ID. This has been corrected. |
| 13 | Bug Fix | Fixed a bug which would result in a crash if the Suggest Tags command is used inside a page header to footer. |
| 14 | Improvement | Changed the ESEF export code to better preserve formatted tables when the content of block tags are viewed in isolation. |
23.1.0 (5 December 2023)
| No | Category | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Functionality | Account mapping functionality to allow the mapping of multiple accounts and sub-accounts to account mapping nodes that can be dragged and dropped onto the report for automation purposes. Currently implemented with Excel connections. |
| 2 | New Functionality | Custom report variables of types string, numeric, list, date and Yes/No can be created. These can be dragged and dropped onto the report, used in calculations and suppressions. |
| 3 | New Functionality | Custom report variables of type Yes/No can be used directly for content suppression without having to create a suppression rule. |
| 4 | New Functionality | Fonts are now embedded in the Report Authority document and exported to docx, xHTML & ESEF format. This will ensure that the final report is rendered in the correct font - even if a custom font was used on report creation. |
| 5 | New Functionality | Non-breaking spaces are now used in numeric data objects with spaces as thousand separators and in date data objects preventing these objects from wrapping across multiple rows of text. |
| 6 | New Functionality | Track changes now works with automated data objects. |
| 7 | New Functionality | Tag ID is now displayed in the tooltip in the Primary Tags panel and XBRL Tags ribbon. |
| 8 | New Functionality | You can now navigate to a tag by right-clicking the used tag in the Primary Tags panel. |
| 9 | New Functionality | Added a new XBRL Tag property "Continue". This now enables the continuation of normal text tags in addition to block text tags. |
| 10 | New Functionality | Report authority now supports the horizontal alignment of text in text boxes and table cells. |
| 11 | New Functionality | You can now undo/redo changes made to the calculation hierarchy. |
| 12 | New Taxonomy | New Danish GAAP 2023 taxonomy |
| 13 | Amended Taxonomy | Added a new mandatory tag validation check for "Principal currency used in business report" to the Irish Revenue FRC taxonomies |
| 14 | Improvement | Improved efficiency in saving, validating, printing, and exporting reports. |
| 15 | Improvement | Reduced the RAM consumption when dealing with large documents. This could lead to significant performance improvements on machines with a limited amount of available RAM. |
| 16 | Improvement | We now use XBRL tag standard labels in the extended presentation hierarchy. |
| 17 | Improvement | The auto-tag algorithm can now deal with an empty first column. |
| 18 | Bug Fix | Fixed a bug that could result in a crash when selecting multiple data objects. |
| 19 | Bug Fix | Fixed a bug that could result in a crash if connected via Remote Desktop and the connection is lost. |
22.2.11 (4 October 2023)
| No | Category | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Taxonomy | EFRAG ESRS PoC Taxonomy 2022 |
| 2 | New Taxonomy | Danish GAAP and Danish IFRS 2022 |
| 3 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue in calculations which reference deleted data objects when migrating from Report Authority to Report Authority Professional |
| 4 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue which prevents exporting to iXBRL format when a date data object is formatted to show the time too. |
| 5 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue which would prevent the software from being licensed using the offline method. |
| 6 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue that could result in the truncation of the html in an iXBRL export. |
22.2.10 (30 June 2023)
| No | Category | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Improvement | You can now navigate to tags in the report by right-clicking the tag in the Primary Tag and Calculation Hierarchy panels. |
| 2 | Improvement | Added page count and zoom slider below report. |
| 3 | Improvement | When changing the Currently Tagging role, Report Authority will automatically select and scroll to the first tag in the role. This is useful for locating primary statements efficiently. |
| 4 | Improvement | Added the full label of the tag in the tooltips in the Calculation Hierarchy panel. |
| 5 | Taxonomy Update | Added a new mandatory tag in the Irish Revenue taxonomy. |
| 6 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue in the ESEF file which could cause rejection in some regulators' gateways - related to inconsistent use of "\"s and "/" in paths in the zip file. |
| 7 | Change | Source code is now obfuscated. |
| 8 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue introduced in the previous patch which would render any iXBRL file exported for the UK and Irish Authority invalid for submission. |
22.2.9 (2 May 2023)
| No | Category | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Change | Export Block Tags Support HTML when exporting block tags (previously only xHTML was supported). |
| 2 | Change | Report Authority will retain its original font in the ESEF export even if the font was substituted on a computer which did not have access to the font. |
| 3 | Change | Removed duplicate types of organisations which both used LEI codes. |
| 4 | Bug Fix | Fixed a bug which could resut in a crash when pasting content from the clipboard. |
| 5 | Bug Fix | Fixed a bug which could result in a hang during ESEF export. |
| 6 | Bug Fix | Fixed HTML rendering issues. |
| 7 | Bug Fix | Fixed XBRL Continuation issues when exporting to ESEF format. |
| 8 | Bug Fix | Fixed a Duplicate xlink arcs error message when exporting to ESEF format. |
22.2.8 (3 April 2023)
| No | Category | Change |
| 1 | New taxonomy | FRC 2023 Taxonomy |
| 2 | New Taxonomy | Irish Revenue 2023 |
| 3 | Improvement | Tag highlighting colours have been modified to create a bigger contrast between current and prior period tags to assist with the detection of tagging errors. |
| 4 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue that would prevent Report Authority from exporting to ESEF format. |
| 5 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue that would create a tag continuation error when exporting to ESEF format. |
22.2.7 (20 March 2023)
| No | Category | Change |
| 1 | Change | Report Authority now only enforces the validation rules found in the Cor entry point of the ESEF taxonomy. |
| 2 | Change | The arrangement of the backstage menu items (the items that appear when you click File in the main ribbon) have been modified to be consistent with the other tools in the Authority Suite of applications. |
| 3 | Change | Units that can be assigned to the perShareItemTypes have been restricted to a currency per unit to prevent invalid unit assignments. |
| 4 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue that would result in English labels being used in the Secondary Tags ribbon in documents being tagged with in a language other than English. |
| 5 | Bug Fix | Fixed a few inconsistencies where our HTML file as part of the ESEF export did not look the same as the report. |
22.2.6 (7 March 2023)
| No | Category | Change |
| 1 | New Feature | The calculation hierarchy panel now supports all numeric types. |
| 2 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue where cell borders with double lines would overlap the text within when exporting to iXBRL/ESEF format. |
| 3 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue where paragraphs would overlap when exporting to iXBRL/ESEF format. |
| 4 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue that would result in Report Authority hanging if trying to write to a fie which is locked by another user. |
| 5 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue that can cause an iXBRL continuation issue. |
| 6 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue that could result in a crash when pasting data from the clipboard into a segment. |
| 7 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue with the refresh links process that could result in the file not being able to be saved. |
22.2.5 (9 February 2023)
| No | Category | Change |
| 1 | New Feature | Users can now manually add or remove elements from the Calculation Hierarchy Panel. |
| 2 | New Feature | Added the ability to import an extended taxonomy that was created from a previous version of the ESEF taxonomy. |
| 3 | New Feature | The content inside block tags (paragraphs and tables) is rendered with formatting when viewed in isolation from iXBRL documents. |
| 4 | Change | Change to the selection behaviour when drawing a selection over tagged data objects. |
| 5 | New Feature | Vertical text is now supported when exporting to iXBRL and xHTML. |
| 6 | New Feature | Automatically create members for the x-Analysis typed dimension for HMRC and Irish Revenue reporting. |
| 7 | New Feature | The naming conventions for ESEF reporting are now supported for submissions to the UK and Portuguese Regulators. |
22.2.4 (20 January 2023)
| No | Category | Change |
| 1 | Updated Taxonomy | ESMA ESEF 2022 Taxonomy. |
| 2 | Change | Enabled the ability to see detailed track changes markup. |
22.2.3 (4 January 2023)
| No | Category | Change |
| 1 | New Feature | Changed licensing mechanism to work off a licensing server for automated licence changes and renewals. |
| 2 | Engineering | Obfuscated the source code. |
| 3 | New Feature | Added a command for copying the tag ID in the secondary tag panel. |
| 4 | Change | Removed the secondary tags section from the XBRL Review Report. |
| 5 | New Feature | Automatically create members for the x-Analysis typed dimension in the FRC taxonomies. |
| 6 | Change | Removed the non-paginated (legacy) method for iXBRL export. |
| 7 | Change | Financial tables no longer use explicit font sizing allowing them to automatically adjust if the "Normal" style is changed. |
| 8 | Bug Fix | Fixed a bug which would result in an application crash when tagging any table row with a merged cell in the last column. |
| 9 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue where block tags in the CIPC taxonomy where incorrectly assumed to be normal text tags. |
| 10 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue which could cause a continuation error in an iXBRL export. |
22.2.2 (21 November 2022)
| No | Category | Change |
| 1 | Bug Fix | Report Authority Professional can now suppress columns where the first row contains nested columns. |
| 2 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue which could result in Report Authority Professional crashing when being launched. |
| 3 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue which could render the Secondary Tags control in XBRL tags ribbon from being disabled. |
| 4 | Bug Fix | Removed excess padding from the top of the Report panel. |
| 5 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue resulting in the creation of a nested tags table in the review report. |
22.2.1 (2 November 2022)
| No | Category | Change |
| 1 | New Taxonomy | CIPC XBRL Taxonomy 2022 |
| 2 | New Feature | Accounting for the fact that UK FRN numbers will soon reach 7 digits in length. |
| 3 | New Feature | Indented tables will remain aligned margin to margin when columns are suppressed. |
| 4 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue with the calculation of the public interest score CIPC validation. |
| 5 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue where £0 was displayed instead of £nil in an assembled document. |
| 6 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue where a document migrated from Report Authority could not be opened in Report Authority Professional. |
22.2.0 (30 September 2022)
| No | Category | Change |
| 1 | New Feature | Allow an extension tag to be added to an empty role. |
| 2 | New Feature | Functionality to insert a numeric, alphabetic or roman numeral sequence in the document. Useful to create sequential lists, such as accounting policy sub-numbers. |
| 3 | New Feature | Enhanced Autotag - This allows you to set mapping between report labels and XBRL tags to be used during the ESEF auto-tagging process. This allows for preparation in advance of the final document being ready for tagging. |
| 4 | New Feature | You can now import an extended taxonomy from another document using the same version of the core taxonomy. This allows you to commence work on extending a taxonomy even before the final document has been made available. |
| 5 | New Feature | Creation of Portuguese and UK variations of the ESEF taxonomy to account for a difference in the file name of taxonomy package required by the local regulators. |
| 6 | New Feature | Headers and footers can now be copied from one segment to many others. This will drastically speed up the creation of a template. |
| 7 | New Feature | Functionality to automatically generate suppression rules has been added. |
| 8 | New Feature | Floating objects can now be dragged and dropped in the editor. |
| 9 | New Feature | Optional English labels for extended tags can now be provided for non-English reports (recommended by ESMA). |
| 10 | New Feature | A Hide property has been added to folders in the Outline panel. This allows for easy suppressing of a large section of a report without having to create a suppression rule. |
| 11 | New Feature | The Add Axis form now use dimensions from both the presentation and definition trees. This makes a few more members useable that previously were not. |
| 12 | New Feature | If a tag is dragged from a custom role that is not the set Currently Tagging role, the software will ask if you want to copy that tag to the currently tagging role. |
| 13 | New Feature | Tag documentation labels are now shown within the tag tooltips. |
| 14 | New Feature | Page orientation and margins can now be edited in reports linked to templates. This allows the orientation for a schedule with many columns to be manually changed based on how many columns are suppressed. |
| 15 | Bug Fix | Normal and indented financial tables don't line up on the right margin. |
| 16 | Bug Fix | Fixed an iXBRL continuation error. |
| 17 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue that would result in a crash when a table row is inserted. |
22.1.7 (13 June 2022)
| No | Category | Change |
| 1 | Improvement | Allow rounding differences to be added to data objects with a calculation adaptor. |
| 2 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue with cross-references to note numbers. |
| 3 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue when dragging and dropping an Excel named range adaptor onto an existing object which would not update the value until refresh links. |
22.1.6 (25 May 2022)
| No | Category | Change |
| 1 | Improvement | Improved the performance when opening up large documents. |
| 2 | Improvement | Improved the performance when scrolling large segments. |
| 3 | Improvement | Improved the performance when editing content in a large segment. |
| 4 | Change | Report Authority now uses the monetary icon for XBRL tags representing values per share - such as earning per share. |
| 5 | Change | When generating iXBRL files for filing with the Irish Revenue, we automatically create tags with the name and version of the software used to create the iXBRL file as requested by the Irish Revenue |
| 6 | Change | When generating iXBRL files for filing with the Irish Revenue, we now do not write the byte order mark to meet the Irish Revenue's filing rules. |
| 7 | Change | Removed the page colour control from segments of type Section Continuous) |
| 8 | Change | You can no longer edit sale definitions in reports linked to templates. |
| 9 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue that would prevent style changes in the template from cascading to the individual reports. |
| 10 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue that would result in unexpected table row heights when inserting a financial table after an indented style. |
| 11 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue that would cause the html component of the iXBRL file to be truncated |
22.1.5 (2 May 2022)
| No | Category | Change |
| 1 | New Functionality | When validating a document, Report Authority will report any numerical data point that spans multiple lines. |
| 2 | Improvements | Removed "unitRef_" prefix for unit definitions in the XBRL file. |
| 3 | Improvements | Disabled by default the OneStream data buffer method of retrieving data from OneStream |
| 4 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue that would cause an error when creating a print preview. |
| 5 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue that would prevent the "@!" symbols appearing when adding a cross reference to the document. |
| 6 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue which would cause a crash when inserting a financial table (when table is indented and a large number of columns is selected) |
| 7 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue that would result in the suspension of UI updating after adding a text tag. |
| 8 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue that would result in a crash when splitting a segment. |
| 9 | Bug Fix | In 22.1.4, we fixed a bug which would prevent style changes from being cascaded from segment to segment. This fix impacted only new documents created. in 22.1.5, we fix any documents that were created using earlier version. |
| 10 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue in the iXBRL file which could cause a continuation error. |
| 11 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue which could result in the iXBRL file being truncated. |
22.1.4 (9 April 2022)
| No | Category | Change |
| 1 | Improvement | Changed method for providing OneStream login credentials. |
| 2 | New Functionality | Added date and number format preview boxes to help correct configuration. |
| 3 | New Functionality | Added ability to paste tabular information into existing table cells. |
| 4 | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue with the default style set that would prevent style changes from being cascaded to all segments. |
| 5 | Bug Fix | Added selection clearing and moved bookmark synchronization to the UI thread during assembly and saving the document which may have caused unstable crashes. |
22.1.3 (6 April 2022)
| No | Category | Change |
| 1 | Improvement | Changed the default version of the ESEF taxonomy. |
| 2 | New Functionality | Add option for creating hashes when exporting to ESEF format. |
| 3 | New Functionality | Added validation rules to test for invalid calculation weights. |
| 4 | Bug Fix | Fixed an iXBRL continuation issue. |
| 5 | Bug Fix | Fixed a bug that would result in a crash when editing an extended tag. |
| 6 | Bug Fix | Cross-references to page numbers were not working. |
22.1.2 (22 March 2022)
| No | Category | Change |
| 1 | New Taxonomy | Irish Revenue Extension Taxonomy 2022. |
| 2 | New Taxonomy | FRC 2022 Taxonomy Suite v1.0.0. |
| 3 | Improvement | Performance optimisations. |
| 4 | Bug Fix | Fixed a bug that would occur if the extension taxonomy URL was changed after the document was created. |
| 5 | Bug Fix | Fixed a bug that would occur if the taxonomy language was changed after the document was created. |
22.1.1 (14 February 2022)
| No | Category | Change |
| 1 | New Taxonomy | CIPC XBRL Taxonomy 2021 v1.2 (single validation rule change) |
| 2 | Improvement | Support for vertical alignment of text boxes in the xHTML export. |
22.1.0 (17 January 2022) - First release to officially support ESEF reporting
| No | Category | Change |
| 1 | Updated Taxonomy | ESEF 2021 Taxonomy v 1.0.0 |
| 2 | New Functionality | Added Currently Tagging role for ESEF reporting. |
| 3 | New Functionality | Adjusted the Auto-Tag algorithm to take into account the currently tagging role. |
| 4 | New FUnctioanlity | Fixed an issue where the file size exceeded the maximum x32 value for DotNetZip. |